lol new yorkers. oh my god. I'm surprised it took him that long to lose his shiat. I kind of feel bad for the flight attendant. I deal with people in the service industry and people are complete assholes when they don't get what they want. You can only take so much shiat from people when it's not your fault.

Roook:lol new yorkers. oh my god. I'm surprised it took him that long to lose his shiat. I kind of feel bad for the flight attendant. I deal with people in the service industry and people are complete assholes when they don't get what they want. You can only take so much shiat from people when it's not your fault.

That may be true but this situation was extreme and a professional should be expecting people to be short tempered and grumpy. Some empathy was warranted this time.

"I'd like a refund of my full ticket price please""I'm sorry we don't refund if the cancellation is due to weather.""Oh, the flight was canceled? Interesting. I got off the plane because your flight attendant instructed me to."

What happens after that? Probably nothing, right? Just crickets and either a cab ride to a hotel (unless you happen to have enough cash or credit to buy another ticket for a plane leaving right then) or a long walk home.

\always wondered what I would do since I never have anything left to buy another ticket..

A law-enforcement source told The Post that the flight was canceled because the plane did not have the required number of flight attendants, after Serrano was removed for questioning.

That makes sense. Not exactly fair to the customers, but at least it's a reason.

But American Eagle claimed the cancellation was due to strong rain.

That does not make sense

The airline, as a matter of policy, refuses to reimburse passengers for hotel expenses if their flight is rescheduled or canceled due to weather.

Ahhhhh now it makes perfect sense! Fark you American Eagle. You're employee screwed the customer, and then you decided to drill a little deeper. And your clothing line sucks.

Continental (now United) did that to us last fall, 2 cancelled flights over two days with clear skies and the the flights were scrubbed b/c pilots were having a sick-in. Continental claimed it was weather. I was ok with lounge access and USAF covering extra hotel and per diem, but others were screwed./csb

Completely silly, but LGA is a clusterfark in normal operations. Throw in some weather and it is Florida levels of stupid.

OtherLittleGuy:Driving time from LaGuardia to Raleight/Durham: 8.5 hours.

Add in time for check-in and security screening, plus the time driving time to the airport, and it's pretty much a wash.

/even with I-95

A friend of my sister was flying LAX-JFK on Virgin America last Friday, and got diverted to Syracuse. But the crew timed out and Syracuse isn't a Virgin America city, so they ended up renting a car and driving.

stay in school kids, or you too will have a horrible post dealing with entitled americans. meanwhile the wealthy owners of the airlines are out playing golf and enjoying life. choose a path and don't deviate.

offacue:Why fly to NC from EWR? It's a 9-10 hour drive..... by the time you get to the airport, check in, wait around, fly, wait for your bags, etc.... you're more than halfway there.

Agreed, but there's something to be said for sitting in an uncomfortable seat around douchy people you can ignore versus sitting in an uncomfortable seat on edge while dealing with I-95 madness and the many douches that you definitely can't ignore (even if some of them seem to have no idea your car exists). At least airline stress is mostly at the beginning and very end, whereas road stress is the whole time.

dstrick44:Roook2012-06-28 07:40:01 PMlol new yorkers. oh my god. I'm surprised it took him that long to lose his shiat. I kind of feel bad for the flight attendant. I deal with people in the service industry and people are complete assholes when they don't get what they want. You can only take so much shiat from people when it's not your fault.

How about when you pay hundreds of dollars for a service and the very people who took your money treat you like a rented mule?How much of that shiat are you willing to take?Me? Not too much. I refuse to fly, BTW.

I won't fly either.......and I wonder why no one took him up on his offer to try and leave (obviously depending on where they were when he said it)...if you got decked by the flight attendant......payday! That's the new American way isn't it?

Back then airlines cost far far more to fly. The stewardesses got canned if they got fat/ugly/old, the customers were better behaved and passengers were all given ponies that shat gold krugerrands to play with for the duration of the flight./mostly due to higher cost you had less people and problems (wont go there with the class/behavior distinctions)//also helps the stewardesses got canned long before they could reach the anal retentive hun stage

Roook:lol new yorkers. oh my god. I'm surprised it took him that long to lose his shiat. I kind of feel bad for the flight attendant. I deal with people in the service industry and people are complete assholes when they don't get what they want. You can only take so much shiat from people when it's not your fault.

You're an idiot.

A flight originating in New York means everyone on the flight is from New York. That makes sense.

If anything, they're all stupid hick tourists from North Carolina. No one from New York has any reason to go south of DC anyway.

The pilots don't intervene when a flight attendant becomes hostle to the passengers? The other flight attendants don't pull him aside to help him? Making kids cry and harassing passengers...he's lucky he does not have a broken jaw.

Was on a SWA flight once delayed due to weather. The pilot says your safety is my primary concern and we are not taking off, we are going back. We'll try again later, I don't like what I see on radar. Everyone appreciated that.

Another flight with SWA we played pass the toilet paper game and when the plane takes off toilet paper roll was unrolled down the asile making everyone laugh.

Another SWA flight the attendant said fasten your seat belts because we will be going really really really really fast. The flight attendant made a terrible wait fun cracking jokes over the PA.